Stripe

State & Local Policy Manager

Stripe • $110K — $130K *
US-AnywhereRemote in United States
Finance & Insurance
5 - 7 years of experience
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Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-8 years experience in public policy, focused on state legislative and regulatory issues.
  • Strong political connections within key markets, ideally California.
  • Expertise in financial services, payments regulation, and artificial intelligence policy.
  • Proven track record of advocacy across multiple states before legislators and regulators.
  • Experience with coalition building and managing state consultants.
  • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment with strong strategic and creative thinking.

Responsibilities

  • Support public policy initiatives by collaborating across teams to identify issues and strategize responses.
  • Build and maintain relationships with state and local political figures.
  • Hire, oversee, and coordinate work with consultants and advocacy partners.
  • Manage Stripe's political contributions at the state and local levels.
  • Establish a network of fintech peers to promote collaborative advocacy efforts.

Benefits

  • Regular travel opportunities approximately 30-40% annually.
  • Engagement in innovative policy-making related to fintech and payments.
  • Opportunity to work in a dynamic, startup-like environment that encourages creativity.
  • Collaboration with various departments such as Legal and Communications.
Full Job Description
What you'll do
Responsibilities
  • Support State and Local Public Policy, which involves bringing together cross-functional groups within the company to spot issues and understand the impact to Stripe, building a strategy to address Stripe's key issues at the state level, and working with trade associations and coalitions to advance policy issues important to Stripe and our users
  • Foster state and local political relationships
  • Hire and manage consultants
  • Coordinate Stripe political giving at the state and local level
  • Build a strategic network of peers among Stripe users and similarly situated fintechs to engage in coordinated advocacy at the state and local level
Who you are

We're looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.
Minimum requirements
  • 5-8 years experience working in public policy, including with state legislative & regulatory issues in a public sector or private sector position
  • Availability for regular travel
  • Strong political connections in a key Stripe market (e.g., ideally California)
  • A combination of political savvy and the ability to go deep into complex policy issues, especially in financial services, payments regulation, and artificial intelligence
  • Demonstrated experience advocating across many states in front of legislators, regulators, attorneys general, and governors, including their respective political and policy associations
  • Demonstrated experience in coalition building, trade association coordination, and managing state consultants
  • A "start up mentality": a willingness to roll up your sleeves, iterate, challenge the status quo, take chances and learn
  • Humility and commitment to teamwork
  • Strong communication (both written and verbal) skills
  • Strong strategic thinking, creativity, and able to juggle multiple tasks in a fast paced environment
  • Availability to travel ~30-40% annually
Preferred qualifications
  • Industry knowledge or passion for payments, tech, and financial services.
  • A strong interest in entrepreneurship, preferably based on experience working with startups, founders, etc.
  • The ideal candidate is an outstanding communicator, a creative problem-solver, has strong public policy experience, and works exceptionally well with Legal, Regulatory, Comms and other functions, and across various geographies.

About Stripe

Stripe is a technology company that builds economic infrastructure for the internet. Businesses of every size—from new startups to public companies—use our software to accept payments and manage their businesses online. Stripe helps new companies get started and grow their revenues, and established businesses accelerate into new markets and launch new business models. Stripe powers businesses all over the world, from the new startup that just launched yesterday to the Fortune 500 companies that we all know and love. Stripe is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices in Dublin, London, Paris, Singapore, Tokyo, and more.
Learn more about Stripe
Size
4,000 employees
Industry
Finance & Insurance
Founded
2010
* Ladders Estimates

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